Water-closet.



C. NUESSLE.

WATER CLOSET.

APPLICATION FILED APR. I. 1916.

Patenfed June 27,1916.

(llitozucu CARL NUESSLE, OF EAST MOLINE, ILLINOIS.

WATER-CLOSET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 27,1916.

Application filed April 1, 1916. Serial No. 88,276.

To r/H when! if mu crmccr/I i lie it known that l. (.un. NnnssLn, a. citizen of the lnited States of America, residing at East Moline. in the county of Rock Island and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Vater- (losets, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to improve ments in water closets, of the valve type, and involves special constructions relating to the bowl and flushing apparatus.

The general object of the invention is to provide a compactly arranged, practically noiseless, and simply constructed and operated device of this chz'iracter, which eliminates numerous objectionable features and overcomes certain difficulties attendant upon most of the apparatus of this nature now in use.

In particular, the object of the invention is to improve the construction of the bowl in connection with the flushing apparatus as will be hereinafter more fully pointed out and set forth in the appended claim.

The invention consists in certain novel combinations and arrangements of, parts illustrated in the drawings and described in the accompanying specification.

The drawings exemplify one complete ekample of the physical embodiment of my invention constructed and arranged according to the best mode I have so far devised for the practical application of the principles of my invention, and while this showing is subject to change or alterations within the scope of my invention, it will be understood that the drawings typify a comparatively perfect apparatus. I I

Figure 1 is a vertical central sectional view of the bowl and connections, some parts also being shown in elevation, according to the principles ofmy invention, with the flushing apparatus in operative position. Fig. 2 is a side elevation view of the apparatus, showing the flashing device inoperative and the supply valve open.

In illustrating my invention I have utilized the typical bowl 1 provided with the annular passage or tubular portion 2 from which the flushing water passes to and through the flushing rim 3 which is of usual character and designed to spra s the flowing water over the entire area of the Walls of the bowl. Water passes to the flushing rim 3 through the passage 4 in the rear of the bowl, and above the flushing rim an open annular chamber 5 is located which isformed in the upper rim of the bowl anddes signed as a flushing tank to receive water under pressure, and to pass this water to'the flushing rim as will be described.

The seat (3 is of usual character or type and is supported on the barrel or tube 7, which isrigidly screwed into a socket in the rear of the bowl. The pivot bolt 10 is passed through the lever arm 11 which is secured in usual manner to the under side of the seat and the seat may be depressed on its pivot 10. The shorter, slotted, arm 12, of the lever 8 indicates a pipe communicating with the passage 4 opening at the rear of the bowl, and couplings 9 are used to make tight joints. The actuating arm 12 is utilized as shown to operate the valves of the apparatus, and a spring 12 is used to hold the seat 6 in normal raised or lifted position with this actuating arm 12 depressed.

The metallic cylinder 13 illustrated at the rear of and integral with the barrel 7 is closed at the top by a screw plug 13 which has a central perforation, and its openlower end is closed by means of the screw plug 14. The interior of the cylinder is fashioned in three compartments as 15,

. 16, and 17, by the interposition of the two horizontal partitions 18 and 19, both of which are provided with valve seats. Two valves 20 and 20 are illustrated as secured on the stem 21 which is vertically reciprocable in the cylinder and through its upper perforated head, and these valves 20 and 20 are adapted to seat in the valve seats in the partitions 18 and 19 respectively. It will be noted that the intake valve 20 closes down in its seat to shut off water communication between the inlet compartment 15 and the intermediate compartment 16, and the flushing valve 20 closes up against its seat to close communication between the intermediate compartment and the flushing or lower compartment 17.

The cylinder or valve casing 13 is integral with the barrel 7 and the pipe 8 is threaded in the perforated boss 22 in usual manner. The barrel or casting provides a passage 24 and the tube 8 a passage 25, the former establishing communication between the intermediate chamber 16 and the flushing compression tank 5 and the latter affol-ding communication between the inlet ofi' by the valve 20. Now; when the seat (3- is depressed, the slotted end 12 of the seat lever 11 is lifted to position in Fig. 2, open ing the intake valve 20 and closing the flushing valve 20, soQthat the flushing tank 5.

is filled through valve 20 and passage 24. When the weight is withdrawn from the seat, the spring 12 lifts the seat and the intake'valve is closed by water pressure and the flush valve is opened so that the water contained in the flush tank 5 is permitted to flow through passages 24 and 25 and at around the flushing rim 2, and the water is sprayed as usual in the bowl. When the seat 6 is again depressed, the flushing tank is again filled and the operation repeated.

What I claim is:

The combination with a bowl having a flushing rim and a flushing tank in 'its up per portion, of a casing formed with an inlet compartment, an intermediate compartmerit, and a flushing compartment, a tube connecting the intermediate compartment with the tank and a pipe connecting the flushing compartment with the flushing rim, a stem and a pair of valves thereon in the casing controlling the flow of water through the tube and pipe, a seat pivoted on the easing and a connection between theseat and stem as described.

' In testimony whereof I atlix my signature.

" CARL NUESSLE. 

